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"And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story."
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"Rising amateurs always intimidate falling masters."

"Hmm", Jason snapped his fingers. "I can call a friend for a ride.Percy raised his eyebrows. "Oh, yeah? Me too. Let's see whose friend gets here first."

"I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool."

"A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride."

"Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals."

"We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion."

"Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition."

"You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!"

"I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition."

"Competition may help us create better products and services but in the end competition really seeks to destroy the opponent. To put him out of the power to compete against you."
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"The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers."


"The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational."


"No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting."


"The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry."


"In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy."


"Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful."


"As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up."


"Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics."


"Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of."
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